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Californian Vintners Are Putting Weed in Their Wine. Wine thieving: the proper way to extract wine from a barrel.

I absolutely love to get fucked up. I'm in my mid-30s though, and I'm no longer free to casually sample mind-altering substances and swim through an ocean of debauchery. I have to be healthy and responsible, at least to some extent. Which is why, if someone stuck a gun to my head and only allowed me one vice for the rest of my life, I would choose weed wine. California weed-wine lore dates back to the late 70s and early 80s in a fuzzy cloud of memories floating above the California vineyards between Santa Barbara and Sonoma.

With any proper experiment comes trial and error.
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Store Locator. How to Order Wine at a Restaurant Without Looking Clueless. Open a Beer with Your Forearm. Hangover Myths, Remember People's Names, and Time-Lapse Your Next Party. Hooch Kit Turns That Drink Into A Real Drink. What could be better than your favorite on-the-go beverage?

A spiked version of your favorite on-the-go-beverage, of course. Unbearable events like plays, kiddie parties and sporting events (okay, so this is all a matter of opinion) get an upgrade when you get yourself a DIY Hooch Kit. What does it do? It actually transform fruit juice into booze. Simply decant your favorite juice into a large bottle, pour in the magic powder, pop the rubber stopper, and airlock in the lid to let the unfathomable wonder of yeasty science work its magic.
20 Alcoholic Beverages Inspired By The Harry Potter Series. Seven Deadly Sins Wine. Seven Deadly Sins Wine The Spanish design agency Sidecar Publicidad has released a series of wine label designs for each of the seven deadly sins.

Envy, Lust, Gluttony and the rest are all here, represented in visually striking forms. That bright, shiny gold bottle inspires envy, and the red, lingerie-laced bottle is as lusty as it gets. We know a thing or two about wine label designs, having featured some pretty popular articles on the design of wine in the past.
Stock Your Bar for $100. The Art of Beer in Atlanta: Hop City. The Art of Beer in Atlanta: Hop City Ommegang Abbey Ale – a delectable American take on the classic Abbey Dubbel of Belgium The craft beer revolution is not just alive and kicking in Atlanta, it’s growing.

The adherents to this revolution in Atlanta, those who truly respect and celebrate craft beer, know Hop City as a modern monument to their cause. Hop City stocks over 1,000 different bottles of beer, from American craft beers to German classics to the great imports of Belgium. While it may be the beer that gets beer lovers in the door, it is the service and quality that keep them coming back.
Extratasty - Get your booze on! - Drink of the day is "A Walk in the Woods" by johnsonsjunk.

The Many Varieties of Beer Poster. Beer is like the Pavlovian trigger-word for most men.

We love the stuff–truly, madly, deeply–but many of us don’t know much about the object of our affection. There are many kinds of beers made many different ways with many different ingredients, and in order to be a better drinker lover, we must educate ourselves.
The Basics of Wine Tasting. Learning how to taste wines is a straightforward adventure that will deepen your appreciation for both wines and winemakers.

Look, smell, taste - starting with your basic senses and expanding from there you will learn how to taste wines like the pros in no time! Keep in mind that you can smell thousands of unique scents, but your taste perception is limited to salty, sweet, sour and bitter. It is the combination of smell and taste that allows you to discern flavor. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: 15 minutes. Beer Tasting - A How To Guide to Beer Tasting. Tasting beer can be very rewarding.

As you encounter new styles or brands it helps to know what to look for in a new beer as well as how to evaluate it. Take your time and work through the aspects of the brew one by one. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: Various Here's How: Pouring the BeerIf you are pouring the beer yourself from a bottle gently run it down the side of the glass. Tips: Do not taste new beers with food or soon after eating.
82 Delicious Facts about Wine. The smell of young wine is called an “aroma” while a more mature wine offers a more subtle “bouquet.”a In ancient Greece, a dinner host would take the first sip of wine to assure guests the wine was not poisoned, hence the phrase “drinking to one’s health.”

“Toasting” started in ancient Rome when the Romans continued the Greek tradition but started dropping a piece of toasted bread into each wine glass to temper undesirable tastes or excessive acidity.e A “cork-tease” is someone who constantly talks about the wine he or she will open but never does.e Since wine tasting is essentially wine smelling, women tend to be better wine testers because women, particularly of reproductive ages, have a better sense of smell than men.h An Italian study argues that women who drink two glasses of wine a day have better sex than those who don’t drink at all.f Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. -- Posted August 21, 2009 References.

DIY Juice to Alcohol Kit. Cork'd Content. Today marks a bittersweet day for Cork’d as we announce it will wind down operations. After 1.5 years, CEO, Lindsay Ronga will move on to other opportunities. “Working with Gary and Jon marked a milestone in my career and I am so thankful for the opportunity. Who knows… at some point we may all reconnect in the future,” says Lindsay. Chairman, Gary Vaynerchuk, explains in this sincere video the details of what Cork’d users can expect. Cork’d Senior Editor, Jon Troutman will continue working in the wine industry with Gary in other capacities, so keep your eyes peeled. Right along with you.

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